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I have only once seen toilet seat covers in the ladies-must have not
made it across the Atlantic!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs


Have seen a couple of times, but that's it. Once in the loos of a motorway
service station and once in a Holiday Inn public loo..

I figure opening the door is what elbows were made for, when possible. At
least I don't put my elbow to my mouth where I might my hand.
"Adrian" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:
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On Jun 7, 7:04 pm, "Stormmee" wrote:
they remodeled a month before i started there, don't even have the
seat cover holders,


I have only once seen toilet seat covers in the ladies-must have not
made it across the Atlantic!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

I've almost never seen them on this side of the Atlantic. WHen I was
a child, my mother told me to line the seat with toilet paper. I
have to confess that I don't usually do so now.


I doubt public toilet seats are any more dangerous than public
supermarket trolley handles, if you believe my late mother.
She insisted that I washed my hands thoroughly if I'd used a
supermarket trolley, she claimed the handles held every germ that
every person who'd ever held it had.
She could well be right. I don't know if my local Asda clean the
trolley handles ever. I suspect they don't.

I might be OK though. I do not hold the handle, I put my hands over
and grip the wire mesh on my supermarket trolley..

Tweed

I often think after washing my hands then opening the door with the
handle, how many people before me have used the handle without washing
their hands. I don't get paranoid about it but I do wash my hands again
when I get home.
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Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
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At the rest area when I see someone do this, I want to tell them not to use
my vending machines. I leave lysol wipes with the cleaning crew so they can
wipe down the delivery station of the coffee machine when I am not there.
The do it, they are on camera and know I check. They get free sodas two
days a week for doing this.
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That is the part about all the 'hygienic use of a public restroom' that
makes really good sense to me. Given the number of people that do not
wash their hands with soap and water when they are done. I really don't
want to go to the trouble of washing mine and then put my hand around
that door handle on my way out. Trash cans are pretty easy to find
usually.


Have you ever seen someone leave the stalls and walk out the door without
washing their hands then found them handling the fresh produce? I always
want to run behind them screaming "This woman is filthy and doesn't wash
up after going to the bathroom." Rob won't let me though. He's probably
saved me from more jail time. . .

Pam S.

"hopitus" wrote in message
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Like Tweed, I am able to refuse using public toilets and have not done
so
for years now. I have, however, accompanied friends who do while
shopping
and have noticed that among corporate merchandising entities providing
such, the "facilities" in Nordstrom dept. stores have been to my
inspection (but
not use) as clean and appealing to femininity as the only other class
equal
in vigilant upkeep of ladies rooms....Vegas hotel casinos (surprise).

*************

Not so surprising when you remember that the single goal of casino
operations is to keep you there for as long as is humanly possible.

Heaven forbid that anyone leave the gambling floor and go back to
their room to use the facilities where they might possibly pass out
and sleep for a few hours.

As for the crowd without rooms upstairs, they will be back and they
will choose a place that is clean over one that isn't.

Nice department stores used to have very classy restrooms. They were
one of the last holdouts on actual attendants.

Jo

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I often think after washing my hands then opening the door with the
handle, how many people before me have used the handle without washing
their hands. I don't get paranoid about it but I do wash my hands again
when I get home.

If the legend about the complimentary peanuts on the pub bar is to be
believed, a lot of people don't wash their hands after using the pub toilet.
Do you know that one?
For those who don't, it used be a common thing for salted peanuts to be in a
bowl on the bar for everyone to help themselves to especially on a Sunday
morning. It became known that random bowls had been tested by Environmental
Health and traces of urine had been found on the peanuts. I don't know how
true it is, but it would not surprise me.
I don't think free peanuts are available in bars now.
Which leads me to a funny story (or at least it was at the time!)
Due to the high security in my work building we have to have a special fob
to swipe to get in and out and even to go to the toilet. Forgetting to take
your fob with you when you go to the bathroom will mean you can get there
but can't get back again.
Anyway, one day we were having a team meeting which meant someone from
another office had to come to staff the phones for a couple of hours. He
did not of course have a fob for our building, so when he needed the
bathroom he had to ask one of us if he could borrow ours, and unfortunately
he chose Becky who is mega-hygienic, too much so IMHO.
I could see that she was struggling with the request but also weighing up
how impolite it would be to refuse given that he needed to go.
Eventually she said "OK, Steve, but after you've handled your willy wash
your hands before you touch my fob again"

We all fell about. Neither of them have been allowed to forget it. Steve
works with us now and every few months someone will say "you DID wash your
hands didn't you?"
He takes it all in good part. Becky gets teased too. As a Christmas
present from the team she got a pair of rubber gloves with pink fur round
the cuffs.

Tweed

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:04:30 +0100, "Christina Websell"
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I often think after washing my hands then opening the door with the
handle, how many people before me have used the handle without washing
their hands. I don't get paranoid about it but I do wash my hands again
when I get home.



If there are towels to dry hands use a dry clean one to open the door
thus not touching door handle. DUH

I don't think we need to bother that much about germs. Healthy people have
immune systems to cope with them - otherwise we'd be dying in droves,
wouldn't we?
It's different for people undergoing cancer treatment, their immune systems
are compromised and don't work properly, so they need to be very careful.
My townie colleagues are often grossed out by the risks they think I take
cleaning out my poultry. Chicken poo! Duck poo! Isn't it dangerous?
Of course it isn't.
How do they think their ancestors survived without Walmart/Asda etc?
Words fail me sometimes. (not often!!)





"Stormmee" wrote in message
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my big issue really is the germs... and what baby sat in the thing with a
mother who thought the ten pounds on the pampers box meant what you can
fill it with not the weight of the child... i am freaked out totally by
shopping carts. if i ever figure out a way to get the amount of groceries
i want without touching one of theirs, i will not only be happy i will be
rich because i will market it.

Lee
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"Cheryl P." wrote in message
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wrote:
On Jun 7, 7:04 pm, "Stormmee" wrote:
they remodeled a month before i started there, don't even have the
seat
cover holders,


I have only once seen toilet seat covers in the ladies-must have not
made it across the Atlantic!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

I've almost never seen them on this side of the Atlantic. WHen I was a
child, my mother told me to line the seat with toilet paper. I have to
confess that I don't usually do so now.


I doubt public toilet seats are any more dangerous than public
supermarket trolley handles, if you believe my late mother.
She insisted that I washed my hands thoroughly if I'd used a supermarket
trolley, she claimed the handles held every germ that every person who'd
ever held it had.
She could well be right. I don't know if my local Asda clean the
trolley handles ever. I suspect they don't.

I might be OK though. I do not hold the handle, I put my hands over and
grip the wire mesh on my supermarket trolley..

Tweed

Which likely some toddler with sticky fingers had hold of last.

Some of our markets have antiseptic wipe dispensers next to where you
pick up your shopping cart (trolley - love that word).

Others figure if that is the dirtiest thing you've touched all day you
probably already have wipes in your purse.

Jo

Christina Websell wrote:
I don't think we need to bother that much about germs. Healthy people have
immune systems to cope with them - otherwise we'd be dying in droves,
wouldn't we?
It's different for people undergoing cancer treatment, their immune systems
are compromised and don't work properly, so they need to be very careful.
My townie colleagues are often grossed out by the risks they think I take
cleaning out my poultry. Chicken poo! Duck poo! Isn't it dangerous?
Of course it isn't.
How do they think their ancestors survived without Walmart/Asda etc?
Words fail me sometimes. (not often!!)

That's more or less how I feel. Oh, I try to avoid anything that might
interest the Department of Public Health, but if I need to use a public
toilet, I do (and wash my hands afterwards) but I trust my immune system
to take care of the occasional inevitable and invisible bit of dirt -
there used to be a saying about how everyone had to eat a peck of dirt
in their lifetime.

Aside from Housekeeping sometimes fogetting that the toilets nearest my
work area exist, and therefore forgetting to re-supply them with toilet
paper, my main irritation is the so far unidentified woman who washes
her hands SO enthusiastically that she leaves the area surrounding the
basin flooded with water. Sometimes you lay a paper on the counter
before entering the cubicle, other times so approach a bit too close
before realizing there's water dripping off the edge onto you.

Cheryl

Christina Websell wrote:
My townie colleagues are often grossed out by the risks they think I take
cleaning out my poultry. Chicken poo! Duck poo! Isn't it dangerous?
Of course it isn't.
How do they think their ancestors survived without Walmart/Asda etc?

More to the point, what do they think fertilizes the "organic" produce
they pay higher prices for at the super market?

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:
My townie colleagues are often grossed out by the risks they think I
take cleaning out my poultry. Chicken poo! Duck poo! Isn't it
dangerous? Of course it isn't.
How do they think their ancestors survived without Walmart/Asda etc?

More to the point, what do they think fertilizes the "organic" produce
they pay higher prices for at the super market?

Exactly! I don't tell them that though.

Tweed